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T.J. Demos is a writer and critic teaching in the Department of Art History at University College London, London. In 2010, he co-curated Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. During 2008–2009, he organized Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art During Global Crisis, comprising a series of research workshops in London and an exhibition in New York. Demos’s essays on modern and contemporary art and politics have appeared in numerous international magazines and journals, among them Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. He is author of The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (2013) and Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013). His book, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, was published by the MIT Press in 2007. Demos lives and works in London. [Last updated 2016]